Chapter 18: Chapter 18: Joking with Xu Tianna (Page 1/2)
Su Ran sat back on the sofa, slowly finished the cigarette in his hand, and then put the cigarette butt out in the ashtray. His eyes moved to the guitar beside him, but at this moment he had no interest in continuing to sing.
He lay on his back on the sofa, and was invaded by boredom again, as if he was trapped in endless torture. He looked at Xu Tianna's room, and couldn't help feeling unhappy. If she hadn't set many restrictions on himself, he would probably be drinking beer with Robben and others at this moment, admiring the catwalk of beautiful women. To a large extent, the boredom at this moment is all thanks to her.
If she hadn't suddenly bought this house, he wouldn't have to please her in order to continue living there, let alone change his long-standing living habits. On such a night, he was tortured to death by boredom.
In Su Ran's cognition, boredom comes from loneliness, and loneliness is so terrible. As long as he is alive, who doesn't fear loneliness? So he got up and came to Xu Tianna's door, determined to break through the cage of loneliness before the night was deep. He knocked on the door gently and said to Xu Tianna who was busy in the room: "Hey, are you free? Come out and chat."
"We have nothing in common." Xu Tianna's cold response came from the room.
"Everyone can talk, how can there be nothing in common? Besides, I am the landlord and you are the tenant. Living under the same roof, in order to live in harmony for a long time, it is necessary to communicate more." Su Ran said unwillingly.
Xu Tianna ignored him, and only a slightly awkward silence echoed in the room.
Seeing this, Su Ran immediately changed his strategy and adopted a conciliatory tactic. He knocked on the door again and said softly: "Have you had dinner? How about I cook some midnight snacks?"
Xu Tianna did not appreciate it and interrupted him in annoyance: "Please do something meaningful."
"Humph, I made you a midnight snack, and you still ridiculed me for having no meaning in life, right? Then I really won't bother you. What's the big deal! I'll play with the spoon by myself." Su Ran sat back on the sofa angrily, but his heart was full of unwillingness. Although he was poor and perhaps not very successful, it did not mean that he would use his humbleness to set off her arrogance. He was also a man with self-esteem, so how could he easily swallow this breath.
So, Su Ran really found a spoon from the kitchen, put it on the coffee table, and gently flicked the spoon handle with his fingers, and the spoon began to spin quickly like a gyroscope.
Half an hour later, Xu Tianna's door opened. She had changed her clothes, wearing a pullover white coral fleece pajamas, and walked towards the bathroom, apparently planning to wash and rest.
Su Ran stared at her closely, but she did not look away. It was not until she walked to the coffee table that she glanced at the still spinning spoon, then stopped and looked at Su Ran. Su Ran looked at her expressionlessly, and the anger in his heart came up again. He vented his anger by flicking the spoon handle hard, and the spoon turned faster.
Su Ran's boring behavior actually made Xu Tianna's face smile. Su Ran couldn't tell whether the smile was just funny or mocking herself.
"What are you laughing at? Didn't I just tell you I was going to play with the spoon handle?" Su Ran said as he turned the spoon faster.
Xu Tianna nodded and said, "You really keep your word and have made progress." After that, she said no more and walked straight to the bathroom.
Su Ran looked at Xu Tianna's back and suddenly slapped the turning spoon handle to stop.
A moment later, Xu Tianna walked out of the bathroom. At this time, her hair was loose, with some water droplets on the ends of her hair. Although she had completely removed her makeup, her skin was still white, tender and smooth, and it was so soft that it could be blown away, which further highlighted her natural beauty. Among the many women Su Ran knew, there was really no one who could be so beautiful after removing her makeup.
Xu Tianna still ignored Su Ran's existence and walked towards her room.
Su Ran shamelessly shouted again: "Stop."
"What for?" Xu Tianna asked with not only cold words but also cold expression.
Su Ran felt guilty, but still said: "I... I'm bored, you can chat with me for a while."
"Go find someone as bored as you, I'm going to rest." Xu Tianna refused mercilessly.
"That's what you said, I'm going out to have fun now." Su Ran seemed to have received a special pardon, and his tone unconsciously raised a few points.
"You can go out, but you have to take your luggage with you, and then there's no need to come back." Xu Tianna's words were like a basin of cold water, instantly extinguishing Su Ran's excitement.
"I knew you would threaten me with this. To be honest, I have been renting a house for several years and have seen all kinds of people, but I have never seen a tenant as arrogant as you. Can't you be polite to your landlord?" Su Ran dissatisfiedly imposed the title of tenant on Xu Tianna again.
Xu Tianna retorted: "I have never seen someone as shameless as you."
"If I wasn't shameless, I would have been homeless long ago. You forced me to do this." Su Ran stared at Xu Tianna, and thinking of what happened in the past few days, he felt depressed again.
"Aren't you the landlord? Who dares to force you?" Xu Tianna looked at him with a smile, her words full of sarcasm.
Su Ran pointed at Xu Tianna, and was so angry that his liver hurt. After a long while, he said: "You vicious woman, I said I was the landlord just to save face for myself. Can't you leave me some dignity?" After that, he sighed again: "The life of the poor is really hard, there is no sense of happiness at all."
"People like you would be rogues in ancient times, and gangsters now." Xu Tianna glared at him, unwilling to entangle with him anymore, and turned to walk towards her room.
Looking at the heavily closed door, Su Ran said, "Pooh!" and angrily, "Rich people are so great? The national leaders have said that the Chinese people will eventually move towards common prosperity. Let you guys who got rich early be proud for a few years, and then you will see me in a few years."
Su Ran tossed around in the living room for a while before returning to his room. He closed the door, lay on the bed, and habitually lit a cigarette. He kept thinking about the scene of bickering with Xu Tianna just now. Although he didn't get any advantage, when he thought of Xu Tianna's pretty face, she was so angry that she called him a rogue and a hooligan, he felt secretly happy in his heart, and his mood didn't seem so irritable. After a while, he fell asleep in a daze, and finally survived the boredom.
Perhaps because he went to bed early last night, Su Ran woke up at six in the morning. After that, he couldn't fall asleep again no matter what, and could only stare at the ceiling in a daze. Unconsciously, he thought of Fang Yuan and Yan Yan's upcoming wedding, and his mood became anxious. He knew that this anxiety was not without reason, and it was all because he was about to meet Lin Yue. This feeling was really terrible, and no matter how he comforted himself, it seemed difficult to be calm.
Moreover, he was also very curious. He and Lin Yue had dedicated many years of youth to each other. He was anxious because of the upcoming meeting, so what about her? Is she the same as him?
Su Ran had no answer in his heart. He understood that he could not measure Lin Yue by his own feelings. After all, men and women are different, and Lin Yue is not the same as himself. Maybe when they meet again in three years, in her eyes, he is just an ordinary friend, or even a stranger.
It was just dawn, and under the continuous anxiety, Su Ran decided not to continue lying in bed. He got up and washed up, and planned to make himself a breakfast. He opened the refrigerator and saw that there were still a few salted eggs left that his father brought a few days ago. He thought, cooking a pot of porridge and buying a few fried dough sticks would be a good breakfast combination.
Su Ran went downstairs to the breakfast shop to buy fried dough sticks, and bought a few bags of pickled mustard tubers at the convenience store. When he came back, the water in the pot was boiling. He poured the rice into the pot, then found a mop and started cleaning the house.
A cold wind suddenly blew in from the balcony window, and Su Ran realized that he and Xu Tianna had forgotten to close the window last night. No wonder this morning was colder than usual.